• Events

    A Whore’s Manifesto Book Reading + Q&A

    Sunday, November 10th — 7:30 pm — FREE (with option to pre-order A Whore’s Manifesto at 10% off) Sex work was once thought to be anathema to women’s liberation. Now, to some, we represent the tenacity of women’s struggles under patriarchy and capitalism — that is, at least the white, straight, cis, able-bodied…

  • Events

    This Heart Holds Many Book Reading & Event with Koe Creation

    Sunday, June 2nd — 7:30 pm — FREE (with option to pre-order This Heart Holds Many at 10% off) As polyamory becomes ever more present in our society, the question blooming in people’s minds is: what about the children!? Fortunately, Koe Creation is here with an answer. This Heart Holds Many: My Life…

  • Events

    Drawn to Sex Book Signing with Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

    Thursday, November 15th — 7:00 – 9:00 pm — FREE — She Bop Division — RSVP on Facebook Join us at our SE Division location (3213 SE Division) for the release of Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan’s new book, Drawn to Sex! Come get your book signed and shop around! This event is free. Have you…

  • Events

    Tongue Tied Book Launch, Reading, and Q&A with Stella Harris

    Thursday, September 13th — 7:30 p.m. — FREE (with option to pre-order Tongue-Tied at 10% off) Come celebrate the publication of Stella Harris’s first book, Tongue Tied: Untangling Communication in Sex, Kink, and Relationships, an incredible guide full of exercises, tools, and personal experiences. There will be a reading and book signing as well as a chance to…

  • New products,  News

    New product round-up for January

    LELO Mona Wave and Ina Wave

    When it comes to new technological innovations, LELO is always coming up with something exciting. This month it’s the Mona Wave and Ina Wave, based on their popular Mona and Ina vibrators. These unique toys have shafts that physically move up and down, mimicking a “come hither” motion against the G-spot. LELO also released an…

  • Musings

    The not-so-secret lives of erotica writers

    In some ways, erotica authors are just like the rest of the population. But not in every way. Ebook recommendation website The Fussy Librarian recently surveyed 103 authors of erotic romance novels, with some interesting results.  The vast majority of respondents were heterosexual married women aged 24-54. The average age that they lost their virginity was…

  • New products,  News

    New product round-up for May

    The world is a much sparklier place now with the addition of many different butt plugs from Crystal Delights! We have their basic yet gorgeous short stem and long stem plugs with Swarovski crystals, a frosted plug with a vintage medallion in the base, a clear plug with a white air bubble marble base, and…

  • New products,  News

    New product round-up for April

    April showers bring May… books? 50 Shades of Kink, Tristan Taormino’s latest guidebook, is here and it’s everything you’d expect from her: snappy, smart, and accessible. We also added Smut Peddler, a collection of 24 dirty comics featuring Portland’s own Erika Moen (of Oh Joy Sex Toy fame), and The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for…

  • Musings

    Girl Sex 101 needs your support!

    What could be better than road trips, queer folks, sex ed, and comics? How about all of those things rolled into one?! It is a collaboration of epic proportions: author and sex educator Allison Moon has teamed up with artist kd diamond to create Girl Sex 101 — a road trip-themed book featuring amazing…

  • Musings,  New products,  News

    Ageless Erotica: more than added wrinkles

    Ageless Erotica

    As big fans of senior sex educator Joan Price (author of Better Than I Ever Expected and Naked at Our Age), we were excited when she posted a call for submisssions for a senior erotica anthology in November of 2011. A book like that was desperately needed, and we knew Price was just the person to make…